"Workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue laboring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master." -Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

I think more Marxists should be studying 21st century counterinsurgencies. We should learn about the tactics, strategies, and outcomes of the contemporary repressive forces across the world in fighting recent rebellions, including the ones by Islamists and other non-“leftists”.

"The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption."

Fanon said he couldn’t look at Notre Dame without seeing a pile of corpses. Tragedy is the beginning of dialectical thinking. There is nowhere else to begin.

Ajay Singh Chaudhary i am beyond ready to talk about the utter and pathetic failure of "progressivism." it is time for people to pick up some books and learn what socialism actually is. cause this ain't it.

Next is Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer. This book covers the history of East Germany, retelling not just its political and economic history, but paying attention to the lives of East Germans themselves and the social-cultural repercussions of the division and unification.

Sister got me this from Santa - very happy to have a hard copy as I’ve found it quite difficult to read on pdf

So do this mean Oxford will pull his "Very Short Introductions" on Hegel and Marx and commission someone who has a clue about these philosophers to write them? Long overdue.

There is nothing "natural" about laissez-faire. The so-called "free" market can only exist through continuous centrally organized and controlled interventionism. To understand this trivial evidence, it is not necessary to read Karl Marx; Karl Polanyi is enough.

Leigh Claire La Berge its about time we realised elites are elite because of their genetic predisposition to just be good at everything

to whatever extent marx thought transportation was distinct from the realm of production he was dumb and wrong. production also includes the production of space. simple as

My most heterophobic assumption is any academic straight couple will be Bell Jar wife, Bell Curve husband